A. Please read How Much Racial Profiling Happens in Ferguson? (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/how-much-racial-profiling-happens-in-ferguson/378606/)
Based on your review of the resource(s) above, please address the following:
- 1. Define racial profiling.
- 2. Explain the connection between stereotypes and racial profiling.
3. Apply what you have learned from the discussion of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri to another recent case. Select one of the African American men listed below, and present how racial profiling occurred in that case. Use statistics and evidence from at least one news source to support this position.
- Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida (February 26, 2012)
- Eric Garner in New York City, New York (July 17, 2014)
- Walter Scott in Charleston, South Carolina (April 4, 2015)
- Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland (April 19, 2015)
- B. Please, visit Hate Crime Statistics, 2009 (https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2009/index.htmlas) you prepare for this discussion. Click through the tables on the website, following your curiosity. Based on the information you gleaned from the FBI website above;
1. Discuss a statistic, study, or other fact that surprised you.
2. How have these types of crimes affected your community?
3. What do these crimes say about the current status of race relations in our society?
4. What steps do you recommend taking to prevent hate crimes?
Minimum of 250 words each section (Aand B). Use scholarly sources to support your responses. APA citation,no plagiarism.